The goal of most CIF Southern Section playoff football teams it to win a CIF-SS title. But for the second year, all those teams that win a CIF-SS title advance to a state bowl semifinal. So, after an emotional 27-21 overtime win over River...

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SoCal Prep Legends Boys Athlete of the Week Name: Jonathan Briseno School: Santa Ana Sport: Football Year: Senior Noteworthy: In a poll that tallied just under 25,000 total votes, Briseno’s numbers took up more than 40 percent of the weight. Briseno’s 10,286 votes were enough to keep Los Altos’ Khayman King at bay, whose game-winning catch last week against Long Beach Wilson won SCPL’s Play of the Week. The senior outside...

By Tarek Fattal
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SoCal Prep Legends Girls Athlete of the Week Name: Morgan Hall School: Loma Linda Academy Sport: Volleyball Year: Junior Noteworthy: It was a runaway for Hall, who took up 72 percent of the voting this week to represent Loma Linda Academy. While the Roadrunners’ season is over, the 5-foot-11 Hall had a good week in two matches, the CIF State Division IV regional semifinals and finals. In the three-set semifinal win vs. Long Beach St. Anthony, she had six...

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Boys basketball CHINO HILLS 90, FOOTHILLS CHRISTIAN 73 >> LaMelo Ball had 38 points for the Huskies in the Battle Zone Tournament victory. LiAngelo Ball added 28 points. MONTCLAIR 50, CHAFFEY 49 >> Junior guard Eric Moreno scored 15 points and dished out five assists to lead the Cavaliers (3-1) in the fifth-place game of the Jurupa Valley Tournament. His last bucket of the game was a 3-pointer that gave Montclair the lead with 35 seconds left. Junior Dylan...

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SAN DIMAS >> Upland broke open a close game in the third quarter then made free throws down the stretch to hold off San Dimas in a 71-63 semifinal win in the Gary Prestesater boys basketball tournament at San Dimas on Friday night. In the other semifinal, Kelvin Wright led Rancho Cucamonga with 15 points and Toby Okwuokei added 11 as the Cougars beat South Hills 52-42. The Highlanders will play Rancho Cucamonga for the championship on Saturday at 7:30 p.m, while San Dimas...

By John Honell
Correspondent|6 days ago

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Last year was a dream season for the Chino Hills boys basketball team. Well this one is starting out pretty well too. Senior LiAngelo Ball, the middle of the three basketball-playing brothers, has scored 154 points in his team’s first three games at the Corona Centennial BattleZone. It was a 72-point output in Wednesday night’s 128-108 over Rancho Christian that had social media buzzing and the most knowledgeable experts scouring through record books. Ball,...

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Chino Hills and UCLA commit LiAngelo Ball had one of the best nights in CIF Southern Section history on Wednesday, finishing with 72 points in a 128-108 victory over Rancho Christian in the Corona Centennial tournament. It was the most points in school history and the sixth most all-time in a game in CIF-SS history, and tenth best singe-game in state history. Tigran Grigorian of Los Angeles Mesrobian holds the CIF-SS record with 100 points in a game set in 2002-03. On...

By Fred Robledo
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Following the 2014 season, San Gorgonio High School football coach Ron Gueringer knew he had holes to fill on defense with graduations and transfers. In February of 2015, the Fakava family, with three high-school aged sons, moved from Maui, Hawaii to Highland. The Spartans’ defense began to look a lot brighter. “These guys walked in and it was like, ‘Thank you, God!’ It was just a blessing,” Gueringer said. The three brothers, senior...

By C.J. Daft
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This time, a career-best night wasn’t enough for junior Matt Bradley and San Bernardino High School. For the second consecutive game, Bradley scored a career-high 48 points, but a 10-2 run midway through the fourth quarter helped seal an 84-71 victory for Redlands East Valley Wednesday. The game, a quarterfinal game in the BattleZone Tournament, was played at Corona’s Centennial High. “I think overall, we were pretty good,” REV coach Bill Berich said.

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It will be homecoming, of sorts, when Riverside Norte Vista High School visits San Gorgonio on Friday night in the CIF-Southern Section Division 7 championship football game. (7 p.m., Fox Sports Prep Zone). A pair of assistants for Norte Vista (11-2) have a connection with the Spartans (10-3). Pat McCarthy and Pat Meech both played against San Gorgonio while in high school at Fontana and Eisenhower, respectively. McCarthy previously coached against San Gorgonio while the head coach at...

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Kim Aiken scored 29 points and Blake Hermann had 19 as the Redlands East Valley boys basketball team squandered a late 10-point lead before defeating Highland 60-57 in overtime on Tuesday. REV (1-1) led 45-35 in the fourth quarter before Deshay Gipson rallied the team from Palmdale. Gipson had 11 of his 33 in a 24-10 fourth quarter. The game was tied, 51-51 at the end or regulation. Highland led early in the OT but Hermann converted a three-point play and Aiken made two free...